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Sometimes it feels like the world is being rapidly overtaken by AI, but author David Ebenbach is here to remind us that this a world of humans, not robots. In the Big Idea for his newest poetry collection, The AI Suspects It Might Be a...
The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the...
The New York Times recently published an absolutely dogshit op-ed from Celeste Marcus titled, "Cutting Off Your Parents Isn't The Answer." Inside, Celeste essentially generalizes parents as being similar to her own, rather than...
📚🗨️ “Each year the world Rich lived in felt more and more like a huge electronic haunted house in which digital ghosts and frightened human beings lived in uneasy coexistence.” Stephen King, It
Lord Acton (1834-1902), Selected Writings, Vol. 3: Essays in Religion, Politics, and Morality (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1988), p. 620: Resist your time — take a foothold outside it — see other times and ask yourself whether the time...
A new post from ben.balter.com · Read it on the web →import BookCta from ’../../components/BookCta.astro’; My book has a linter that yells at me for hyphenating “open source.”1 It runs ~5,500 automated checks, rebuilds five formats on...
First, a warning. This post contains pictures of spiders. Big spiders. If this worries you, perhaps consider reading something else - I suggest my previous post: Borneo - No Spiders.We...
📚🗨️ “Now he had to go back to being himself, and that was hard—it got harder to do that every year. It was easier to be brave when you were someone else.” Stephen King, It
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The tags in this blog are a mess. I know. It bothers me. I've been told I'm a messy person as many times as I've been told I'm obsessed with order, to which I can only come to a conclusion: I love sorting things, but when I slip up it's...
While I do take care what games I pick up during Early Access, I have a weak spot for crafting survival games in particular. This year, for whatever reason, we’re seeing a bunch of the big hitter survival games coming out of early access...
As I write this on Monday, August 17th, there’s two more “selfie of the day” posts left for me to do before wrapping up the project. I thought I’d do a bit of a review of my thoughts about this project, as well as write about my plans...
In times of great distress, I don't feel like doing art at all. However, experience informs me that this is yet another trick the brain plays on me. If I start, I'll get into the flow and actually feel better. So far, I have only missed...
Twenty-three-year-old Edwin Herbert Hall discovered the Hall effect in 1879, while working on his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University. He found that when electric current flows through a conductor in a perpendicular magnetic field, a...
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...